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Abstract
Summer camps for young learners fulfill a recurring community need and provide higher education students with the opportunity to apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate their discipline as they collaborate to plan engaging activities for the youngsters. This article describes the individual and institutional impacts of a service-learning project in foreign languages that can be reproduced in other disciplines.
Introduction
An exemplary service-learning project retains a balance between service and learning. However, in attempting to provide a needed service to the community, service-learning practitioners sometimes insufficiently ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Keeping the "learning" in service-learning.